World political theatre and performance : theories, histories, practices /
"World Political Theatre and Performance: Histories, Theories, Practices" is the second collection of essays to emerge from the Political Performances Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from multiple locations, t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2020]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9789004430990 9004430997 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Activist theatres/performances past and present. Activist theatres/performances past and present : an introduction
- Political activism or handling trauma? The Civil War staged in workers' theatres in 1920s Finland
- From revolution to dissent : a case study of the changing role of theatre and activism in Bengal
- Who gets to represent the past and why should they bother? Maltese political theatre in the 1980s
- A film-set activism : political dimensions of a Labor Day performance
- Making the audience cry : witnessing violence and the ethics of compelled empathy
- Stepping forward : an exploration of devised theatre's democratic designs in an actor-training setting
- Part 2. Contemporary (debates on) political theatre. Contemporary (debates on) political theatre : an introduction
- The politics of theatre in France today
- Returning to the 'Plebeian' roots of comedy : contemporary political theatre in Poland
- Theatre NO99's Savisaar : an Estonian political musical for the twenty-first century
- Theatre and democracy in Chile : La Re-sentida's La imaginación del futuro, or the failure of Utopias
- The touring grass stage : staging the site-specific dilemma of glocalization in hypermodern China
- Meeting in the theatre to think towards social and political change.